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So sorry for your loss. Regarding wanting to get back in to CS: I became a dev in my mid 30s, and found my first job in a country where I don't speak the langu

So sorry for your loss. Regarding wanting to get back in to CS: I became a dev in my mid 30s, and found my first job in a country where I don't speak the language. Received plenty of rejections and embarrassed myself during both whiteboard and take home coding challenges. Even when I went above and beyond for a take home challenge, the offer went to someone else. But something stuck out to the hiring director (grit, belligerence in the face of the odds?) and I was offered a position mainly on my intangibles. Sometimes I tend over think and catastrophize, but every now and then I catch lightning in a bottle and defiantly ignore that skeptical voice. So I hope you can take something from my rant.

Auracle 4y ago
Thank you. It's a bit hard in my case as we want to stay in our rural area, so that would mean probably a remote job. What's worse is that weddings are booked pretty far out, so I would need to not take any (more) bookings for 2024 and desperately hope I can get a job after wedding season is done in November. There's no way I could take on a full time job in addition to a full summer's worth of weddings. I work 15 or so hours a day during the worst of it already. I've been working on a VR game in my free time so right now my hope is to (somehow) finish that this year and then at least I'll have something to show...which I guess might be that lightning in a bottle that I need.